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Asterisk SIP Message Handling Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA24380
Release Date: 2007-03-07
Last Update: 2007-03-19
Popularity: 8,777 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Asterisk 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1306


Description:
MU Security Research Team has reported a vulnerability in Asterisk, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error when handling SIP request messages. This can be exploited to crash the service via a specially crafted SIP message with no URI and SIP version sent to default port 5060/UDP.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.4.0 and 1.2.15. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.4.1 or 1.2.16.

Provided and/or discovered by:
MU Security Research Team

Changelog:
2007-03-08: Updated description to include additional information from MU Security.
2007-03-19: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Asterisk:
http://asterisk.org/node/48320
http://asterisk.org/node/48319

MU Security:
http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200703-01.txt

Other References:
US-CERT VU#228032:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/228032


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